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Collection Name/number San Clemente Island/Mesa College
Owner US Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest
Micro Photo? yes; 3
Macro Photo? yes
Recovery Type Survey
Unit Not given
Depth (cm) Surface
Condition Broken
Material Class Groundstone
Object Type Donut stone
Rock Type Metamorphic (steatite)
Weight (g) 60.4
Maximum Object Diameter (cm) Not measurable
Maximum Object Thickness (cm) 4.0
Minimum Perforation Diameter (cm) Not measurable
Wear Distribution Manufacture wear (smoothing and sheen) on sides and edge and inside hole.
Wear Characteristics (up To 40x) Inside hole: leveling, high sheen, and rilling related to drilling manufacture. No linear striations. Side surfaces and edges: nearly complete leveling, high sheen, and many fine multidirectional striations under sheen.
Has note The SDAC curates several ground-stone -donut- objects collected by archaeologists during survey and excavation across sites in Southern California.
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CA_SCLI_1644_190_F_side_20xhelicon
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Vocabulary: CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM)
soapstone info
Vocabulary: Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Open Context References: soapstone hub
Suggested Citation

San Diego Archaeological Center. (2011) "SCI-09: 190 from Americas/United States/California/CA-SCLI-1644". In San Diego Archaeological Center. San Diego Archaeological Center (Ed). Released: 2011-09-21. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/1f03d9c8-34bb-4404-3e09-ae656380ecbd> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2tb14715

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